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Edit: she has been released.

cross-postowane z: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41881352

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Poland has detained Aysoltan Niyazova, a member of Russian anti-Putin protest group Pussy Riot, after she entered the country from Lithuania. The authorities say they were required to do so as she is the subject of an Interpol red notice issued by Turkmenistan, and are now considering her extradition.

Niyazova, who is a Russian-Turkmen dual national, was taken into custody and placed in a detention centre on Saturday morning, according to Lucy Shtein, a fellow Pussy Riot member, who shared a video on social media of the incident.

Shtein noted that Niyazova was also detained in Croatia in 2022 under the same Interpol notice, before being released a week later. “They’ve been putting this person through this for years just because she’s the daughter of a Turkmen opposition figure,” she added.

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Pussy Riot told Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet founded by two of the group’s members, that Niyazova is facing “no legal charges” in Turkmenistan and that “her only ‘crime’ is openly opposing one of the most closed dictatorships in the world”.

“We demand her immediate release and call on Polish and European authorities not to extradite her to a regime known for torture, arbitrary detentions and persecution of dissidents,” wrote the group, which rose to international prominence in 2012 after staging a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

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When Niyazova was previously detained in Croatia in 2022, Amnesty International was among the human rights groups that appealed for her not to be extradited to Turkmenistan, saying it would “put her at great risk of suffering serious abuse, including torture and other ill-treatment”.

Amnesty noted that “Interpol warrants have been notoriously abused by a number of authoritarian regimes”, including Turkmenistan’s, which issued its red notice against Niyazova in 2002, accusing her of embezzling funds belonging to the country’s central bank

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  • Blursty@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Guest that’s what you aim at?

    Yes, your link confirms it?

    Any of them arrested for caring an empty white peace of paper? Any of them arrested for a punk gig?

    Well not that I know of. They’re arrested for far more innocent and defensible things. Like protesting Germany’s (and the EU’s) genocide.

    Don’t get me wrong - I have been beaten up by German police and been to German prison and did not enjoy it. But I appreciate protesting there is at least legal

    Lol wat? It’s even worse that they beat your up illegally? I don’t understand how your mind works.

    And that’s not even attempting any political activity in Russia, that’s just your average experience.

    Really? Is it though? Did that even sound plausible as you were typing it?

    Repressions of punk bands in Russia is ok because capitalist regimes do what capitalist regimes always do?

    My point is that “repression” of foreign funded far right propagandists for genocidal states is understandable, even commendable.

    Any sources, links to said support of genocide and nazi propaganda?

    Do you support the genocidal USA and the EU. Because Pussy Riot do. This is an easy question to answer.

    Your programming is out of date. Gaza changed everything. You can no longer claim that Russia is worse than the EU.

    What did you learn from the genocide? Anything at all? Did you change your views on any topic?